Re: NetBooting a Quadra from MacOS X

[Andreas Wolf <aw%seqlab.de@localhost>]

Am 29. Apr .2008 um 21:37 Uhr schrieb Hauke Fath:

> [Btw: Would you mind setting your Apple Mail to use proper quoting and
> plain text mail? That <x-rich> and
> <bold><fontfamily><param>Courier</param><x-tad-bigger> stuff it sends 
> has
> my Eudora inline the quoted passages with the rest of the mail. 
> Thanks!]

Oops, sorry. I hope it's fixed now.

> At 12:57 Uhr +0200 29.4.2008, Andreas Wolf wrote:
> >         macbsd# touch /var/gaga/letme
> >         touch: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> >
> > What's wrong here?
>
> tset(1), touch(1) are from /usr/bin, df(1) is from /bin.

Actually, I noticed that, too (after a couple of hours).

>  It would seem that
> you accidentally picked a usr tarball for a different architecture?

Unlikely, but nothing is impossible. I'll check that...

> About shoehorning a MacOS X machine into being a proper nfs server I 
> cannot
> say much. There are slight differences in exports notation between 
> SunOS
> and the various BSDs, and big ones between them and the zoo of Linuxes.
> Apple seems to add its own twists and variations. They are said to 
> track
> FreeBSD userland, but how regularly? And how thoroughly? NFS exporting 
> a
> file was possible since SunOS 4, or so I read my "Managing NFS and 
> NIS"...
> if Apple broke that, all bets are off.
>
>         hauke

I have read quite a couple of pages on this problem. Seems as if I 
should have a look at the powerpc port of NetBSD ;-)

> "It's never straight up and down"     (DEVO)

Is that the punk-band Devo, way back in the seventies?